reading matters: bloggige roundup
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Matthew Ingram has been on a bit of a tear of blogging recently at his
several active blogs. At Woebot, there's been thoughts about Eno's own
thoughts on ...
In The R.Elms of the Senseless (slight return)
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Interesting reflections on the *Robert Elms* book *Blitz: The Club That
Created the 80s* over at *Michaelangelo Matos*'s substack *Beat Connection*
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Nabokov on music
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“Music, I regret to say, affects me merely as an arbitrary succession of
more or less irritating sounds.”
- Nabokov, *Speak, Memory*
"I have no ear fo...
that's why they call it a...
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Missed this 2016 tune, nodding back to / riding on a 1997 tune
that's some folk-memory persistence
some contiNUUMity
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Ooh a U...
Corduroy Psychedelia
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Interesting piece at *Split Infinities *on a band that is getting talked
about at the moment but written before all the are-they-or-aren't-they buzz
"Am...
The Red Hot Chilli Peppers
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In honour of the new RHCP doc, which is focused on Hillel Slovak, their
tragically-died-young guitarist, and in further honour of Flea's ja...
The Deep Purple Of ________
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The improbable existence of this book of scholarly essays on *Deep Purple* fer
fuck's sake made me re-contemplate this band's deep u...
Futuromania - the paperback
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The paperback edition of Futuromania has just come out
Older eyes will recognise the graphic design's nod to this best-seller of
the 1970s
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Sad Songs
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Quite some time ago, Glen Goetze asked me about sad songs, for which
publication I cannot remember,
*1. What are your earliest memories of music?*
The ...
angel delights
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https://rada-ve.bandcamp.com/track/saturn-rings-songs
*Go on* - listen to that gorgeous bubble bath of synthtronica!
Another vintage release, with a vi...